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...What Makes a President? In "Medals Don't Make A President," Charles Krauthammer argued against the apparent Democratic logic that a decorated military man is capable of wise leadership as President [Feb. 23]. The biggest mistake made in Vietnam was to continue the war as President Lyndon B. Johnson did. But Kerry's calling the Vietnam War "Nixon's war" can be justified. Richard Nixon was a cold warrior. He didn't want to lose in Vietnam, and he ordered the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia. Wong Chun Han Singapore...
...depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film’s major theme, what resonates from The Passion of the Christ is not necessarily its brutality, but rather the significance of his sacrifice. There are only glimpses...
...response to Al Franken’s upcoming liberal radio program, “The O’Franken Factor,” Bill O’Reilly will think it wise to sue the savvy satirist once again—it worked so well last time with his suit over his image used alongside the phrase “Lying Liars...
KARZAI: It wouldn't be wise or right. Afghanistan is not yet capable of standing on its own feet, of defending or sustaining itself. We have to continue to fight terrorism...
...lead the rest of one's life more cleanly. Danticat's gift is to combine both sympathy and clarity in a moral tangle that becomes as tight as a Haitian community. She doesn't try to bring everything together into a grand resolution, because she's too wise about Haiti and history to expect the future of her country or even of the most penitent onetime torturer to be clear cut. But when the final piece of her moving puzzle falls into place, we, like the dew breaker's daughter, see just how much we didn't know when...